Surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins down to the sixteenth century.

The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past was one of the most prominent developments in historical studies in the United Kingdom. In

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subj

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians